DESIGNING HIS DARK MATERIALS

I’VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU…

Last month we asked if Bond could defeat Covid-19. Turns

BABY YODA GOT BACK

EVER SINCE THE Phantom Menace landed in 1999, prophecies about

SWAP CHOP

You’ll have to trust us on this one: director extraordinaire

CONQUER AND DESTROY!

ONCE UPON A TIME, THE DALEKS had empires. The children

DECADE OF THE DEAD

ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT 2010, the television adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s

TAKING FLIGHT

IF IT’S POSSIBLE TO WIN AT Hollywood, Disney is doing

MALCOLM MCDOWELL

If...., A Clockwork Orange and O Lucky Man! made McDowell’s

WHEN WE WAS FAB

A FORMATIVE INFLUENCE FOR generations of British sci-fi fans, Gerry

YOON HA LEE

Greatest Hits Lee’s debut Ninefox Gambit won the 2017 Locus

First Contact

Robert Graham, email Do we really need any more Walking

Talk Of The Toon

WHEN THE STEVEN SPIELBERG-produced Animaniacs series vamoosed into the sunset

Built On Sand

EVER SINCE RALPH MACCHIO and Bill Sienkiewicz turned David Lynch’s

On The Warpath

AFTER SPENDING THE PAST TWO years on creator-owned work, Kieron

Bricking It

WHEREVER YOU LAND ON THE STAR WARS scale of love

Crossing The Dreams

LOCKE & KEY ENJOYED A successful first season on Netflix

Great Scott!

AS A CHILD OF THE ’80S, CAVAN Scott was a

JONATHAN SIMS

They’re people from all walks of life, rich and poor,

Penny Dreadful SFX’s high priestess of horror

If you haven’t caught up with Lovecraft Country, you must

Retro-active

All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each

25 Is Alive!

What’s the collective noun for a group of SFX editors?

Catch Some Ray

ORIGINALLY PLANNED TO KICK OFF IN May, the exhibition Ray

Baker’s Seven

AFTER FEATURING IN Star Trek: Picard, Seven of Nine returns

LONDON FILM FESTIVAL

It was a case of swings and roundabouts for this

POSSESSOR

Brandon Cronenberg’s debut Antiviral suggested it; his belated second writer/director

WOLF WALKERS

From Cartoon Saloon, makers of the lovely Oscar-nominated fantasy Song

TRAIN TO BUSAN PRESENTS PENINSULA

Tense Korean horror Train To Busan (2016) followed a group

SPACE DOGS: RETURN TO EARTH

The third in Russia’s toddler-friendly Space Dogs franchise makes the

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LOVECRAFT COUNTRY Season One

EPISODES 1.01-1.10 Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel Lovecraft Country seemed tailor-made

THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR

EPISODES 1.01-1.09 Mike Flanagan’s latest reinvention of a classic of

TRUTH SEEKERS Series One

EPISODES 1.01-1.08 We’re always delighted to see Simon Pegg and

STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS Season One

EPISODES 1.01-1.10 Star Trek last ventured into the cartoon frontier

WELCOME TO THE BLUMHOUSE

Directors Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, Veena Sud, Zu Quirke, Elan and Rajeev

THE FU MANCHU CYCLE 1965-1969

BLU-RAY DEBUT Fu Manchu: always the most contentious of globe-threatening

JEEPERS CREEPERS

Rated 4 out of 5 stars EXTRAS Rated 4 out

DEMENTIA

Rated 4 out of 5 stars EXTRAS Rated 3 out

SLEEPWALKERS

Rated 2 out of 5 stars Extras Rated 4 out

GEMINI

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars EXTRAS Rated 2.5 out

BURST CITY

Rated 3 out of 5 stars EXTRAS Rated 3.5 out

I, MONSTER

Rated 3 out of 5 stars EXTRAS Rated 4 out

976-EVIL

Rated 3 out of 5 stars EXTRAS Rated 4 out

HIS HOUSE

NETFLIX Even in the best haunted house movies, you can’t

VOODOO APOCALYPSE

Thought we’d left tedious grindhouse homage back in the 2000s?

7 HOURS ON EARTH

This film may only cover seven hours, but they feel

SPUTNIK

“We sent two into orbit, yet three returned to Earth,”

TREMORS: SHRIEKER ISLAND

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars EXTRAS Rated 2.5 out

DAWN OF THE DEAD

Rated 5 out of 5 stars Extras Rated 5 out

LAKE MICHIGAN MONSTER

Rated 2 out of 5 stars Extras Rated 4 out

OVER THE MOON

NETFLIX It seems almost all kids’ films these days follow

32 MALASANA STREET

SHUDDER Impatient for the next Conjuring film? You may find

BLOOD HARVEST

This handsomely shot folk horror fuses the isolated setting of

EVERY TIME I DIE

It’s best you know about this film’s USP going in,

LIFE AFTER THE NAVIGATOR

Rated 4 out of 5 stars EXTRAS Rated 3 out

TALES FROM THE HOOD I & II

Rated 3 out of 5 stars EXTRAS Rated 3 out

THE TWILIGHT ZONE Season One

Rated 2 out of 5 stars EXTRAS Rated 3.5 out

ROUND UP

Though billed as a folk horror, THE OTHER LAMB (out

THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES

Having seen her debut The Ten Thousand Doors of January

THE ARREST

A lot of us wonder what use we’d be in

THE KEY TO FEAR

“No touching today for a healthy tomorrow”. As well as

DOCTOR WHO: THE KNIGHT, THE FOOL AND THE DEAD

Previously, the various strands of the multimedia Time Lord Victorious

NORTHERN WRATH

This is, in many ways, a classic genre fantasy. There

PARIS BY STARLIGHT

Stories of refugees, of the struggle to find a new

THE NOLAN VARIATIONS

From the labyrinthine logo of his production company Syncopy to

THE SAINTS OF SALVATION

One of the recurring ideas in Peter F Hamilton’s novels

BULLET TIME

• About half debuted in the classic series - so

THE SNOW SONG

Once upon a time, there was a teller of fairy

THE TOWER OF FOOLS

Sapkowski, creator of The Witcher, launches a new series here,

THE BOOK OF MALACHI

Acclaimed South African novelist Tracey Farren has hopped genres with

REISSUES

The big-name paperback this month is IMAGINARY FRIEND (Rated 3

FLASH GORDON: THE OFFICIAL STORY OF THE FILM

There was always a lot more to 1980’s Flash Gordon

THE THIEF ON THE WINGED HORSE

Good ideas don’t, unfortunately, automatically make good books. Kate Mascarenhas’s

FIRE CANNOT KILL A DRAGON

Disillusioned at seeing his TV scripts watered down by constraints

THE RUSH’S EDGE

This space opera debut is an easy read, one where

OPENING THE BOX OF DELIGHTS

For those who religiously watch the BBC’s 1984 adaptation of

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Charles Stross’s tenth Laundry Files book looks to be a

X OF SWORDS

ISSUES 1-8 If there’s one thing that the new Jonathan

STRANGE ACADEMY

ISSUES 1-3 “Superpowered high-school drama” is a subgenre that both

SHADOW SERVICE

ISSUES 1-3 Bringing to mind urban fantasy novels like Ben

THE DREAMING: WAKING HOURS

ISSUES 1-3 The Sandman spinoff enters its next phase. It

ALIEN: THE ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

ISSUES 1-3 With the licence for Alien spin-off comics moving

STAR WARS: SQUADRONS

VIDEOGAME This Star Wars shooter rarely reinvents the flight stick,

DOCTOR WHO: THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY

AUDIO DRAMA The Eighth Doctor’s strand of the Time Lord

IMAGINARY SOUNDTRACKS

ALBUMS The “soundtrack for an imaginary film” is old hat;

RICHARD BAND

SOUNDTRACKS Ghoulies, Troll and TerrorVision are rarely to be found

CHILDREN OF THE STONES

AUDIO DRAMA Modernising a much-loved children’s classic is a tricky

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

In which horror film are theatre critics murdered using methods

G vs E

Twenty years ago, one of the regular highlights of my